The Gamesters of Triskelion: Earth Edition

(An excerpt from a little entertaining piece I wrote to draw parallels to the classic Star Trek episode:)

The Thralls
In the episode, kidnapped people fight each other in the ring for the amusement and gambling purposes of the unseed "Providers" who provide for all their needs. All of their needs, except freedom of course. The thralls are kept in line with control collars that will taser them should they not obey or think thoughts inconvenient to the providers.

In our world today, the thralls are the ordinary citizens in every country. Our providers are constantly pitting us against each other in phony, yes phony, political matchups to keep us distracted from the giant sucking sound Ross Perot predicted. Internationally, they pit us thralls against each other for massive profits. Nathan Rothschild said that war is the most profitable business, thus they keep it going.

The Fake Currency
In the episode, the Providers use the currency of "quatloos", which is pretty bogus seeing how the Providers were nothing more than disembodied brains with no civilized economy to have a real currency in. Similarly, our providers have SDRs....

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http://therepublicanmother.blogspot.com/2012/02/gamesters-of...